VISI Faculty: Michael Tenzer
Michael
Tenzer is a composer, performer, educator and scholar. He
studied music at Yale (BA. 1978) and Berkeley (Ph.D. 1986). After
teaching at Yale from 1986-96, he moved to U.B.C. where he teaches
ethnomusicology, composition, music theory and gamelan performance,
and co-directs the doctoral program in ethnomusicology. He is the
author of two books on Balinese music, the editor of the Oxford
Anakytical Studies in World Music, and composer of dozens of works,
including a series of fusion compositions involving Balinese gamelan
and diverse principles and instruments of other world music
traditions. He has founded and directed gamelan in Berkeley, New
Haven, Vancouver, Paris, and Eugene.